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There the situation stayed, with about 100 people milling around. About 4:20 p.m. Edward Boyle, assistant corporation council, arrived and went into a BRA trailer with Deputy Police Superintendent Joseph Saia to discuss the situation with Sherriff Shaw and Ambrosn P. Griffin, BRA project manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRA | 8/5/1965 | See Source »

...bras and girdles should be attractive as well as functional. Braun hired Designer Heinrich Ernst Hoelscher in 1955 to re-engineer the company's products along lines that had already been adopted in the U.S. The men could do little to change the clumsy German name for the bra-Büstenhalter-but they did alter the garment itself. Out came deeply plunging bras made of stretchable synthetics with less padding and no old-fashioned bones; lighter, flower-patterned girdles; filmy nylon slips and translucent shortie pajamas. They instantly captivated Germany's willowy, style-conscious girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Boom in Bustenhalter | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...made Triumph as successful with its 18,400 employees as with its customers. For promising personnel there is a company school that provides a year's free instruction in executive skills; in 1964 it graduated 700 Triumph management trainees. It is known within the company as "the bra academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Boom in Bustenhalter | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...BRA-BANG! BRA-BANG! goes Ursula Andress, 29. And in about as fast a transition as anyone's emotions are ever likely to undergo, the hapless fellow is dead-gunned down by the twin pistols hidden in the girl's brassière. Playing a Jane Bond out to earn her diploma in legal killing from the Central World Government circa 2000 A.D., Ursula straps on the sexshooter and goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...replace the current project, the planners recommended the development of a new plan "that would benefit the families presently living on the site." They proposed that most of the occupants be allowed to keep their homes and that the BRA help the community in rehabiltating their houses...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Head of City Planning Department Criticizes North Harvard Renewal | 5/31/1965 | See Source »

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